Re: problem compiling Octave-Forge on Red Hat Linux system

[Mike Miller]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Mike Miller wrote:

> I was expecting the line about "extra" because of the NOINSTALL, but 
> what about FIXES?  Am I supposed to add a NOINSTALL to that directory? 
> I have to guess that I am supposed to but I really don't understand the 
> instructions. Is there a way for me to know what has been superceded by 
> recent versions of Octave?

Well, I did this:

touch FIXES/NOINSTALL
make distclean
./configure --prefix=/same/prefix/as/octave
make -k
make check

And it worked!  Hallelujah!

I guess the instructions could use a little brushing up but I have to say 
that it went well once I came up with the right setup.

Best,

Mike

--
Michael B. Miller, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
and Institute of Human Genetics
University of Minnesota
http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/



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